En del av Jorden 😊 欲をかかず、荒波をたてず、毎日に感謝して、愉しんで生きよう

Akiko, self introduction

I grew up with my grandparents in Takasaki, Gunma prefecture, in the middle part of Honshu, Japan. Grandfather started to teach Judo after he served as a prison-guard for many years, before and during the war-time in Japan. He established a Judo gym and a bone-setting clinic, which nowadays called as Judo-therapy. My father took over the Judo gym and the clinic, and now my brother and his wife continue the family path.

When I was 19, I started to work, after one year of a cooking school education. My first job was to sell clothes to young people in a department store. After working as the clothes seller for about 5 years in my home town, I moved to Tokyo, when I was 24. First got a job for an American cosmetic company in Roppongi, and for a foreign fashion models agency in Shibuya, then got married to a Swedish man, who I met in Tokyo.

Moved to Osby in the south Sweden in the early spring of 1993. After living together for 10 years, he decided to go into a Buddhist monk way. So he moved to Japan. I decided to stay in Sweden, to see what will happen here without having family and long-time friends around.

Lots of things have happened since then 🙂

Read on below…

************

In Sweden…

First I published a small essay book in Japan. Sweden kara Konnichiwa 1996.

Then a co-translated book was published in Japan. Waterless Mountain 1998.

I started a small company in August 2012, in order to be more responsible and consistent with my will to be a psychologically and physically stable person to live on Earth with other livingthings in harmonious way. This is the challenge of my life.